Orontes
Orontes are the following geographical objects:
- Orontes (river) , river in Lebanon, Syria and Turkey
- Alvand , mountain range in Iran (ancient name)
Orontes is the name of the following people:
- in the Dionysiacs of Nonnos a son-in-law of the Indian king Deriades who drowns himself in the river, see Orontes (river) #History
- Orontes I. Sakavakyats , poor. Yervand (around 570–560 BC), first of the Orontid kings according to the traditional Armenian chronicle
- Orontes (Persian) (5th century BC), a member of the Persian royal family, executed under Cyrus
- Orontes I (401–344 BC), satrap of Armenia at the time of Xenophon
- a member (4th century BC) of the royal family of the Macedonian province of Orestis, father of the general Alexander the great: Perdiccas (Diadoche)
- Orontes II (336–331 BC), commander of the Persian troops in the battle of Gaugamela
- Orontes III. (317–300 BC), satrap of Armenia
- Orontes (Armenia) (212–200 BC), ruler in (Eastern) Armenia
- Orontes IV (around 93 BC), King of Sophene
- Christian Weise (1642–1708), pseudonym of the German writer
Orontes , others:
- Orontes (ship, 1902) , British passenger ship
- Orontes (ship, 1929) , British passenger ship
See also:
- Orontids (dynasty of Armenian rulers)
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